Working Papers
The Working Papers comprise a large body of research used to advance our knowledge of Latin America's history and culture.
Below are many of the interdisciplinary working papers produced through the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center's coordination and sponsorships throughout the years.
Latin American Studies Center Series - Rockefeller Humanities Resident Fellow (1989-90, 1992)
No.1 Luis H. Antezana. Dos conceptos en la obra de René Zavaleta Mercado.
No.2 Oscar Terán. Rasgos de la cultura intelectual argentina, 1956-1966.
No.3 Rafael Gutiérrez Girardot. La formación del intelectual hispanoamericano en el siglo XIX.
No.4 Ileana Rodríguez. Transición: Género / Etnia / Nación. Lo masculino.
No.5 Regina Harrison. 'True' Confession: Quechua and Spanish Cultural Encounters in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
No 6 Carlos Altamirano. Peronismo y cultura de izquierda (1955-1965).
No.7 Irene Silverblatt. Honor, Sex and Civilizing Missions in The Making of Seventeenth-Century Peru.
No.8 Barbara A. Tenenbaum. Mexico and the Royal Indian C The Porfiriato and the National Past.
No.9 David M. Guss. AIndianness and the Construction of Ethnicity in The Day of the Monkey.
No.10 Agustín Ramos. Historia verdadera del duende de las minas ** double volume.
No.11 Peter Hulme. Rescuing Cuba: Adventure and Masculinity in the 1890s.
Lecture Series - Discovering the Americas
No.1 Miguel León Portilla. Mesoamerica 1492, and on the Eve of 1992.
No.2 Luis Villoro. Sahagún or the Limits of the Discovery of the Other.
No.3 Rubén Bareiro-Saguier. Los mitos fundadores guaraníes y su reinterpretación.
No.4 Dennis Tedlock. Writing and Reflection among the Maya Metamorphosis 1992.
No.5 Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano. Syncretism in Mexican and Mexican-American Folk Medicine.
No.6 Sabine G. MacCormack. Children of the Sun and Reason of State: Myths, Ceremonies and Conflicts in Inca Peru.
No.7 Frank Salomon. Nightmare Victory: The Meanings of Conversion among Peruvian Indians (Huarochirí 1608?).
No.8 Franklin Pease. Inka y kuraca. Relaciones de poder y representación histórica.
No.9 Richard Price. Ethnographic History, Caribbean Pasts.
No.10 Josaphat Kubayanda. On Colonial/Imperial Discourse and Contemporary Critical Theory.
No.11 Nancie L. González. Prospero, Caliban and Black Sambo.Colonial Views of the Other in the Caribbean.
No.12 Franklin W. Wright. Christopher Columbus: Myth, Metaphor, and Metamorphosis in the Atlantic World, 1492-1992.
No.13 A. Lynn Bolles. Claiming Their Rightful Position: Women Trade Union Leaders of the Commonwealth Caribbean.
No.14 Peter Hulme. Elegy for a Dying Race: The Caribs and their Visitor.
No.15 Ida Altman. Moving Around and Moving On: Spanish Emigration in the Age of Expansion.
No.16 Ramón A. Gutiérrez. The Political Legacies of Columbus: Ethnic Identities in the United States.
New Latin American Studies Center Series - Working Papers (1996-21st Century)
No.1 Adolfo Gilly. Por una utopía cruel dejamos nuestras casas (1996).
No.2 Raúl Vallejo. Crónica mestiza del nuevo Pachakutik (Ecuador: del levantamiento indígena de 1990 al Ministerio Étnico de 1996) (1996).
No.3 Jessica Chapin. Crossing Stories: Reflections from the U.S.-Mexico Border Bridge (1997).
No.4 Graciela Montaldo. Intelectuales y artistas en la sociedad civil argentina en el fin de siglo (1999).
No.5 Mieko Nishida. Japanese Brazilian Women and their Ambiguous Identities: Gender, Ethnicity and Class in São Paulo (2000).
No.6 Raanan Rein. The Second Line of Peronist Leadership: A Revised Conceptualization of Populism (2001).
No.7 Soledad Bianchi. Errancias, atisbos, preguntas: Cultura y memoria, postdictadura y modernidad en Chile (2001).
No.8 Hugo Vezzetti. Historia y memorias del terrorismo de estado en la Argentina (2001).
No.9 Alejandra Bronfman. "Unsettled and Nomadic": Law, Anthropology and Race in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (2002).
No.10 Roxana Patiño. Narrativas políticas e identidades intelectuales en Argentina (1990-2000) (2003).
No.11 Seth Meisel. Petitions, Petitioners and the Construction of Citizenship in Early Republican Argentina (2004).
No.12 Teixeira Coelho. Tudo fora de lugar, tudo bem (Uma cultura para o século) (2005).
No.13 Jorge Fornet. Nuevos paradigmas en la narrativa latinoamericana (2005)
No.14 Paula Alonso. Contested discourses in the Foundation of ‘Modern Argentina’. The Political Debates of the 1880s in the Party Press (2006)
No.18 Inés Pousadela. La imposible (auto)reforma de la política. Lecciones de la experiencia argentina, 1997-2007 (2007)
No.20 Flavia Fiorucci. La administración cultural del Peronismo, políticas intelectuales y estado.(2007)
No.21 Nick Copeland. Cruel Populism: Counterinsurgency Strategy and the Limits of Democracy in the Guatemalan Highlands (2007)
No.22 Axel Gasquet. El orientalismo argentino(1900-1940) De la revista Nosotros al Grupo Sur (2008)
No.23 Carlos Mascareño. Descentralización y democracia en América Latina: ¿Una relación directa? Elementos conceptuales para su estudio.(2008)
Issues in Culture, Democracy and Development
El Foro
This biannual publication showcases exemplary UMD undergraduate students’ research and creative work focused on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx populations in the U.S
Issue One
This issue opens with a poem from Olivia Connolly, focused on her grandmother, a Puerto Rican immigrant and business owner in the U.S. In “Jugar con la infancia,” Hannah Barlow, a junior completing a double major in Spanish and International Development along with the LACS certificate, reads Albertina Carri’s film Los rubios alongside Alejandro Zambra’s novel Formas de volver a casa to examine the experiences of dictatorship through the lens of childhood. Ash Escobar, who recently graduated with a Spanish major and a certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, explored the subtle ways that indigenous culture has been kept alive in popular Salvadoran culture: through traditional foods, vernacular, and celebrations that weave together vestiges of a culture that could not be vanquished. Camila Guerrero, a double major in Government and Politics and Spanish Literature and Culture examined how Salvadoran immigrants of the civil war impacted their children’s political partisanship, focused on the relationship between family and religion, and how this is significant in how second-generation Salvadorans vote. Finally, with her timely research paper “Mexican Immigration Policy Effects on Central American Migrants,” Public Policy major and LASC certificate graduate Jennifer Reyes studied the role of Mexico in policing Central American migration.
This selection demonstrates the excellence of students’ work and breadth of their interests. These authors movingly merge their personal experiences, histories, and commitments with their creative and scholarly production. We are proud to showcase this work!
- Olivia Connolly, Que será
- Hannah Barlow, Jugar con el testimonio
- Ashley Escobar, The Resilience of Indigenous Culture in El Salvador
- Camila Guerrero, Inheritance of Political Partisanship from Parent to Child: Case of Salvadoran Immigrants of the Civil War
- Jennifer Reyes, Mexican Immigration Policy Effects on Central American Migrants
Issue Two
The second issue opens with a compelling essay from Ofelia Montelongo titled "Five Things DACA Recipients Want you to Know." In this essay, she shares interview stories from five interviewees who are DACA recipients.
1. Ofelia Montelongo, Five Things DACA Recipients Want you to Know
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